And when eight days were completed, [the time] to circumcise him, his name was called Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Jesus answered and said to them, I performed one work and you all wonder.

Of the stock

And he said, I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, instructed at the feet of Gamaliel in the accurate interpretation of the law of our fathers, and am a zealous worshipper of God as you all are to-day;

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the posterity of Abraham? so am I.

Of the tribe

I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

An

AND in those days the disciples being multiplied, there was a complaint of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, that their widows were neglected in the daily service.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the posterity of Abraham? so am I.

Pharisee

And Paul knowing that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried in the Sanhedrim, Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee and the son of Pharisees; for the hope and resurrection of the dead am I under trial.

My mode of life from my childhood, the early part of it being with my nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews,

General references

And they came on the eighth day to circumcise the little child, and called it by the name of its father, Zachariah.

But new wine must be put into new bottles.

But whatever things were my gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ.